![]() Something that Jordan and I have said many times, in our previous work, is that the African-American experience is not a monolithic one. I’ve learned that from him.ĭoes that include looking for leading-man roles that, in a different era, might have gone exclusively to white actors? I’m making sure to pick projects that reflect what I actually want to do. I’m more than happy to be a person who lives in those worlds. He wants to be in charge of creating worlds. If you actually express what you feel, and you know where you’re coming from and what makes your heart beat, that can happen. ![]() He did exactly what he wanted, and that was the result. It’s not about succeeding to that exact level. ![]() Given the success Jordan had this year with “Get Out,” do you feel any burden to succeed to the same degree in something of your own? I have to establish new habits in my life, and one of those new habits is asking, what do I think about this? What are my opinions about this? At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear, as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel. You see exactly how he sees the world when you watch “Get Out”. Jordan has no compunction, whatsoever, about sharing his feelings about the world. That’s surprising - looking at “Key & Peele,” that would seem to come from a person with a very strong point of view.Ī good deal of my work you’re seeing through the prism of two people. I’m trying, every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be: Are they going to like me? I’m allowed to say, I like this and I don’t like that. And the show has actually helped reveal a little bit of that. It’s a completely different part of my life that I’m trying to look at now. I would say there was more technical learning than there was self-discovery. Unlike our parents in the ’60s, I wanted to listen to my elders. ![]() What were your higher-education experiences like? from the University of Detroit Mercy and an M.F.A. And the latter is way more uncomfortable. But there’s comedy sex, and then there’s passionate sex. with three-quarter-side, quarter-crack.” You literally get to negotiate how much, to the delight of my loved ones. I had no idea that entertainment lawyers spend a good 25 percent of their day talking about side-butt versus full crack versus partial crack versus full back-al - as opposed to full frontal - full posterior view, half-crack with mostly side. How did you feel about viewers meeting your character completely naked in an opening sex scene? These are edited excerpts from that conversation. Key spoke about the education the new series has provided him, shooting nude scenes and how he feels about Mr. On a day off from playing Horatio in the Public Theater’s production of “Hamlet,” Mr. I, Keegan, want to be able to go, O.K., what’s the intensely personal thing that I want to do, and I don’t care if I fail? I admire people like that.” ![]() “He writes a distinctly, intensely personal thing for himself. “Ethan is reflecting something in his life that I’m only now discovering the courage to do,” he explained. Key, 46, an exuberant conversationalist with an elastic body and an expressive face, said in a recent interview that he could relate to his character’s identity crisis. Key plays Ethan, a struggling novelist trying to keep pace with his classmates’ financial success. On the series (which was created by the real-life married team of Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, and will be released on July 14), Mr. That identity has started coming into clearer focus with shows like “Friends From College,” a new Netflix comedy about a clique whose members have known one another since their undergraduate days at Harvard. Key has been pursuing a very different project: figuring out who he is, behind all these roles, and what he wants to do independently of his frequent collaborator Jordan Peele. In the two years since that socially conscious Comedy Central sketch series ended, Mr. On “Key & Peele,” Keegan-Michael Key played any number of outrageous characters: an “anger translator” for President Obama a battle-honed substitute teacher adjusting to a mostly white classroom a squad’s worth of oddly named college football players. ![]()
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